Critical Care Medicine

Announcement:

The Department of Medicine is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Mypinder Sekhon as Head, Division of Critical Care Medicine, for a five-year term effective July 1, 2025.

Dr. Sekhon is a Clinical Associate Professor and Intensivist at Vancouver General Hospital. Dr. Sekhon completed medical school, internal medicine residency and critical care medicine fellowship at UBC before completing a Neurocritical Care fellowship at the University of Cambridge. He completed his PhD under Prof. Philip Ainslie in cerebrovascular sciences. Dr. Sekhon was the UBC Critical Care Program Director for 7 years. He has received research funding from Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Weston Brain Institute, VCHRI and Health Research BC. He has over 200 peer review publications and was recently awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal. His research interests include translational cerebrovascular sciences and resuscitation medicine. He hopes to bring a collaborative provincial approach to the Division of Critical Care Medicine in BC with emphasis on cross-disciplinary and health authority academic endeavours.

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Sekhon on his appointment and wishing him all the best in his new role.

I also want to express my heartfelt gratitude to Dr. Cheryl Holmes for her outstanding leadership and stewardship of the Division of Critical Care from July 2020 until the present.

Anita Palepu, MD, MPH, FRCPC, MACP, FCAHS
Professor and Eric W. Hamber Chair
Head, Department of Medicine
University of British Columbia

Previous message from Dr. Cheryl Holmes

The UBC Division of Critical Care is a collaborative and multidisciplinary team of clinicians, scientists, leaders, and educators who advocate for the diverse critically ill patients and populations of British Columbia and beyond in a way that is respectful, inclusive, timely, and sustainable.Our Division contributes to the UBC Faculty of Medicine Vision, “Transforming Health for Everyone” by providing extraordinary critical care through innovation, education, collaboration and advocacy.

I am continually humbled and inspired by the dedication of our faculty to their patients, their teams, their learners, and their communities.  Our faculty exemplify the best values of the profession.  We believe excellence is achieved by:

• Compassion: Showing kindness and empathy to ourselves and to others
• Integrity: Leading by example to be honest, ethical, truthful, and transparent in all our interactions;
• Collaboration: Working together to provide extraordinary critical care by working together across disciplines
• Innovation: Advancing knowledge and translating new discoveries to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities;
• Social Responsibility and Accountability: Advocating for our profession and our patients through a commitment to equity, diversity, decolonization, and inclusiveness.

Who we are:  The UBC Division of Critical Care is a collaborative and multidisciplinary team of clinicians, scientists, leaders, and educators who advocate for the diverse critically ill patients and populations of British Columbia and beyond in a way that is respectful, inclusive, timely, and sustainable.

The UBC Division of Critical Care supports extraordinary critical care through:

• Collaborative and culturally safe Clinical care
• Innovation and Research Initiatives
• Inclusive and Accountable Leadership
• Education across the continuum and globally

Who we do it for: We serve the diverse populations of British Columbia and beyond, providing the best critical care possible to patients and communities along the continuum of care in quaternary, tertiary, regional, community and rural and remote settings.

With gratitude, we acknowledge that the Division of Critical Care and its sites, which resides on four university academic campuses, are located on traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of Indigenous peoples around the province of British Columbia

We respectfully acknowledge that the:

• UBC Vancouver-Point Grey academic campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and UBC operations in Vancouver more generally are also on the territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh);
• UBC Okanagan academic campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation;
• University of Northern BC Prince George campus is located on the traditional territory of the Lheidli T’enneh, who are part of the Dakelh (Carrier) First Nations;
• lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territories the University of Victoria is located and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.